Chapter 60 A Special Little Experiment

As the breeze blew, the money plants in the flowerpots on the wooden table in the office swayed. With careful care, they looked lush and green.

In the bright sunshine, Jiang Ning read the contents of the diary again and again.

Looking at the list of "Chen Yuan" names, I was so ashamed that I almost lowered my head into the drawer of the table.

"How could this happen???" She couldn't help but find it unbelievable. Her life had been going on very normally in the past few days. If she didn't record it, she would not have realized that she had thought about Chen Yuan so many times.

Looking back, I was really shocked.

Jiang Ning really felt that she had become a little possessed. She closed her diary, raised her head and stared blankly at the ceiling, her soft hair falling on the back of the chair.

The campus outside the window was full of vitality, but her eyes were dull, as if her soul had been taken away.

For a mature and rational woman, Manako's mind was full of men. This was extremely scary.

This means that the focus of life is shifted, the rhythm is disrupted, emotional thinking is overly rampant, female hormones are secreted vigorously, and estrogen completely dominates.

This leads to increased desires and greater mood swings.

If not treated in time, it may quickly degenerate into the terrible "love brain".

Jiang Ning was shocked. She realized that she had lost interest in her work. She had never noticed that she had the potential to be in love.

not only that.

In Jiang Ning's social circle, she has always been the one who gives advice and always stands on the rational side. Whenever her classmates, relatives and friends have relationship problems to confide in, she will keenly judge the actual situation and help them break out of the idiotic thinking during the relationship.

This will help your friends quickly escape from suffering, restore their IQ, and change their lives from disorder to order.

During Jiang Ning's college years, everyone around her seemed to be in love.

The trend of free love abroad is even more exaggerated. It seems that everyone has a partner. Apart from academic and survival issues, they spend all their time sticking together with their partner, even like conjoined twins.

For her friends, the window period of being single is only half a month. At the beginning, they can read and go shopping happily with Jiang Ning, and then one day they may not be able to find her. When asked, they will say that she is busy, has no time, or is accompanying her boyfriend.

These people? Don't they have anything to do if they don't fall in love?

Jiang Ning rejected countless suitors. She seemed to be one of the few sober people in the school. She spent most of her time in the library and often went only between the school and her rented house.

Most of the buildings at Yale University are Gothic. In front of the oldest building there is a long pavilion with a stone corridor, which is covered with wisteria... Jiang Ning sat inside reading. The atmosphere was quiet and the sun was warm.

At that time, she had a sense of pleasure that she was the only one sober while everyone else was drunk, and that she was making progress alone.

At this moment, in the office.

Jiang Ning clenched her fists.

No, after all this time, no wonder I don’t have any feelings for guys of my age. It turns out that I’m attracted to someone like Chen Yuan, who is younger, clear and clean, and has a youthful feel but not childish.

Hey, how come I contacted Chen Yuan again?

Jiang Ning grabbed the notebook and flipped through the pages of the diary. The more she read, the more guilty she felt. If this thing was seen by others, she would undoubtedly be ruined.

No, it must be destroyed!
Jiang Ning tore off those pages of the diary and looked up at the door from time to time, fearing that someone would come in at this time. Her cheeks were full of sneakiness, and her lips and cheeks were rosy, looking very charming.

But no one appreciated it.

After tearing up the diary, Jiang Ning took out a pair of small scissors from the drawer and started cutting.

She bit her teeth lightly, full of resentment, and muttered something, as if she could completely forget about Chen Yuan by cutting the papers into pieces.

Only after doing all this did she feel relaxed. She continued to slump in the chair, pouting her lips slightly.

Jiang Ning would never admit that she was fantasizing about falling in love with Chen Yuan.

How can I be so embarrassed to do such a thing...

……

Probably because the students were taking a break from get out of class, there was some noise outside the office, and a few boys were walking by on the small path downstairs, shouting and calling each other.

Jiang Ning stood by the window and watched for a while.

There were still documents to be processed on the table, but she had no time to think about them at the moment. She had just drunk too much water. Jiang Ning opened the door and hurried into the corridor, her lower abdomen a little bloated.

To the bathroom.

She found an empty place and went in. Then she grabbed some toilet paper from the side, tore it off piece by piece, and spread it around the toilet until it was full with no gaps left. Only then did she sit on it with peace of mind.

Jiang Ning's mysophobia and obsessive-compulsive disorder are very mild, mainly manifesting in the use of facilities in public places, but not a big deal at home.

Otherwise, she would have been driven crazy by Jiang Yao long ago!
"..."

"Hey, where did you put the test paper?"

"It's at the door."

"Don't lose it."

"How is that possible? Who would have nothing better to do than steal the test paper and take it home? It's just a small test. No one would be so crazy as to do that."

Suddenly, footsteps were heard in the restroom, and two girls walked in, talking as they entered the cubicle with doors open on both sides of Jiang Ning.

It is a common occurrence for students to use staff toilets.

Although this behavior has always been prohibited in schools, simply posting a note at the door cannot stop people from coming in, and it is not clear why most schools do not allow students to use it.

I guess these two girls came to get something from the teacher and went to the nearby toilet to solve the problem.

Jiang Ning remained silent, swiping her phone.

But the two girls were still chatting even though they were separated by several wooden boards.

"By the way, remember to send me the photos."

"What picture?"

"Except Song Lin, all those boys' messages were sent to me. My best friend from the Finance College next door brags about how many handsome guys there are in her college every day, but I see they are all ugly and not as good as the handsome guys in our school. What kind of taste is that!?"

"Haha, you want to show it to her? There's one in the school bar, just keep it for yourself."

"No, the ones I saved are all blurry. It might be a problem with my phone. Please remember to send me the original picture."

Proofreading? Photos?
A strange look appeared on Jiang Ning's face. Is this what the daily life of a female classmate is like?
Even the quality of boys in the same school can lead to a comparison mentality?
A little childish.

However, if students are not childish, they are not called students, and she can understand that.

Jiang Ning thinks that appearance is not the most important thing. These things that will gradually change with time are never worth excessive concern. On the contrary, one should observe whether a boy is sincere, kind, and introverted. Those are the ones worth discovering and loving.

So, she never chases stars, and Jiang Yao doesn’t chase stars either.

Not to mention becoming a fan of a good-looking celebrity.

"Why are there only these two? Something is missing!" the girl yelled.

"Who is missing?"

"Photos of the president, and a dozen of Chen Yuan's. You must send me the photo of him in the classroom. I like that one the best."

Chen Yuan!

Jiang Ning pricked up her little ears alertly.

It was really unexpected that I could hear his name even in the women's restroom.

"Okay, it's posted on Green Bubble."

"Tsk tsk tsk, I love this picture so much. I'm going to take a screenshot and use it as my phone wallpaper. Won't my sisters in the Finance College be so jealous that they'll cry?"

It seemed that the girl in the cubicle had already anticipated the sour scene. She showed off proudly, while her sisters in the group were shocked and indignant.

With a rustling sound, two girls walked out of the cubicle, from the toilet into the corridor, and the footsteps gradually faded away.

Jiang Ning pressed the toilet, wondering why there was a photo of him in the school bar? Could it be that Chen Yuan was very popular in school?

come back to the office.

Jiang Ning hesitated for a while, thought about it, and felt that he must get to the bottom of this matter.

Otherwise I won’t be able to continue working with peace of mind.

She turned on her mobile phone, downloaded Tieba from the software store, and completed a series of tedious operations such as registering an account and verifying her mobile phone number. Finally, she successfully entered the exclusive Tieba of Lan University.

When she started browsing, Jiang Ning didn't find any photos. There were posts about looking for things, posts asking about the level of Professor Yang from the School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, and posts by various people just for fun.

I've been brushing so many times, and my patience is gradually lost.

She finally found a post titled "Lanjing University Xiaoshuai Scoring".

Should be this.

Jiang Ning clicked on it and found that there were indeed many photos of male classmates.

There are also scoring rules, with a full score of 10 and a minimum of 1. There are special managers to compile statistics, and the top score is the average score.

She not only lamented that there were so many tricks students were playing nowadays, but also said that she had never seen such things before.

"Student Union President, Fang Tiankuo"

"Top: 8.9 points"

"Photo"

"Photo"

"photo""……"

"Sophomore Art Department Song Lin"

"Top: 7.1 points"

"Photo"

"Photo"

"..."

Jiang Ning scrolled down one by one, without much desire to browse. She knew some of the students, but had no impression of others at all. She felt that the grading evaluations were quite normal.

"Qiu Shaofei, Junior, Department of Finance"

"Top: 9.1 points"

"Photo"

"Photo"

"Photo"

"..."

"Junior year astronomy department Qu Zongcheng"

"Top: 6.1 points"

"Photo"

"..."

Jiang Ning kept swiping the screen until she reached the middle of the post.

A familiar name appears.

Her expression suddenly became serious.

Found Chen Yuan!
"Freshman Physics Department Chen Yuan"

"Top: 9.8 points (tied for first place)"

"Photo"

"Photo"

"Photo"

"Photo"

"Photo"

"..."

Jiang Ning was shocked. Other boys had three or four at most, and seven or eight at most.

And Chen Yuan actually has more than twenty photos, from various angles and of different types!
Those eating in the cafeteria, in the study room, running on the playground, walking on the road with textbooks...

There are dozens of comments under almost every photo, and the number of likes on the comments is also very high, making it very lively.

Jiang Ning read it carefully, and her pretty brows furrowed.

"Send more, love to see!"

"My hand has already touched my belly button, and then I remembered that these days are not the right time, so I'll save it for next time!"

"The beauty upstairs is against the sky..."

"The desolate land of Bashan and Chushui, the hot-tempered man Lan seduces me (gluttony)."

"We talked about it, but I didn't allow you to touch my butt, so we broke up."

"Fuck! I suddenly had an idea. I'll hug Chen Yuan and take a picture showing only my hands. I'll post it on WeChat Moments with the caption 'newly done manicure'. It will be awesome."

These highly praised comments were full of obscene and bizarre language, which made Jiang Ning frown.

It's really wild...

Especially the one who mentioned showing her nail polish, many people responded to her, saying things like “Sister, you understand so well”, “Right, right, right”, and “Imagine that I’m dead ahhhhh!”

Jiang Ning pondered for a few seconds, and sighed that this idea really touched a woman's heart, full of a secret desire to show off.

She held her chin with her hand, holding the phone with her slender fingers and swiping it with one hand.

Click on one, zoom in, and take a closer look...

Click on another photo, zoom in, and take a closer look...

The angles these girls took the photos from are really good, and it can be said that Chen Yuan is shown from all angles.

Part of it is that even if Jiang Ning did it herself, she felt that she might not be able to capture such an atmospheric feeling, and the word "atmosphere" was mentioned most frequently in the comments section.

Compared with the more intuitive impact of appearance, Chen Yuan is actually the kind of boy in school who can best remind people of their youth.

The school uniform, loose bangs, the pretentious youthfulness, walking in the sunshine or turning back to smile and wave at roommates, everything is so suitable, as if he should be embedded in the picture frame of the school.

Especially when Jiang Ning saw the photo of Chen Yuan lowering his head and asking Professor Zhang Yanping in the classroom a few days ago, a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes. She clicked on the photo quickly, raised her head and stared at it blankly for a long time.

"This one looks nice..." she muttered to herself.

After a moment's hesitation, Jiang Ning long-pressed the screen, her cheeks slightly red, and chose to save it to the album.

After looking through more than 20 photos, Jiang Ning began to understand why Chen Yuan got the first place. It was mainly because his style was rare and his photos were impressive in many ways.

She also saw many girls discussing getting Chen Yuan's contact information.

Suddenly, a strong sense of crisis appeared in Jiang Ning's heart.

How can you do this?

They clearly don't understand each other, don't know each other's values, haven't chatted about philosophy and literature together, don't have sufficient contact in real life, and don't care about each other's personality.

If you only care about the appearance, you will pursue the other person and plan to have a relationship with him/her.

Isn’t this superficial!

Jiang Ning bit her lip, unable to understand what these female classmates were thinking. However, she suddenly felt uncomfortable, as if Chen Yuan was going to be snatched away by someone else.

These girls in school are bright and proactive, and are undoubtedly very competitive in dating choices.

If someone really started dating Chen Yuan...

Jiang Ning's eyes and brows showed deep worry.

……

"How do I know if I'm in love with someone?"

December 20th, near noon.

Jiang Ning was in the office, facing the computer, typing this line of words with a serious expression, and then clicked the Baidu button.

「Click to enter the test」

「Exclusive Advertising」

"Personality Type Test"

A large number of advertisements immediately caught Jiang Ning's eyes, and she manipulated the mouse to scroll down quickly.

Then, the first answer:
“1. Feel that the other person is special. This feeling will undoubtedly emerge at the moment of love.”

"2. You can't help but think about the other person, meaning intrusive thoughts. You can't help but think about what he said, his smile. You will think about how he thinks of your dress and relive every moment you spent together. As the obsession increases, you may spend more than % of your time thinking about him, so that you are frequently distracted in your daily life."

"3. You will beautify the other person's shortcomings. People who are immersed in love are different from idealistic people. Idealistic people don't notice the other person's flaws, while people who are immersed in love, even if they see and can list the other person's flaws, will still tell themselves that these flaws are unique and charming, and belong to him."

"4. You feel helpless and start to think that this feeling is irrational, uncontrollable, and even involuntary, but you can't resist it."

Meow!

all hit!

Jiang Ning widened her eyes in surprise and doubt. Every word hit the nail on the head for her current situation. Not a single one was wrong. It was a perfect replica!
She was stunned and her face started to get hot uncontrollably.

An obvious fact was placed before Jiang Ning's eyes: she might really have fallen in love with Chen Yuan.

So many words appeared on the computer screen, but only enough to fit four long paragraphs.

Jiang Ning took a sip of water to calm herself down, then rowed to the fifth line.

"5. A small experiment that is the easiest way to confirm whether you are truly in love with someone. Show him the side of yourself that you think is the most beautiful and seductive. If he stares at you, but you don't resist, and even feel excited and blush. That's it... you've fallen in love."

puff--

She turned her head and spat out a mouthful of water, then coughed violently a few times.

The most...most tempting side?
Jiang Ning lowered her head, not knowing what she was looking at, but her eyes were full of panic. In an instant, she turned into a cooked shrimp, with her neck turning pink.

This kind of thing... is absolutely not allowed!

(End of this chapter)